Try to keep up...OK?

There's something wrong with my PC, the main one, where my truck loads of RAM keeps getting eaten up by SNMP. I think it is some sort of system compromise (malware, spyware virus), but I'm buggered if I can find what's wrong. This has been my constant companion (the somethingswrongbutIcan'tfindoutwhatitis feeling) since I started working with PCs back in '85

I know I can fix it by rebuilding the PC, but the issue there is that my PC is unique, in so much as it has programs and "things" on it that are just the way I want them, and it will take time to put it back together. It's not that I can't do it, I've done it dozens of times, it just that I'm sick of doing it!

A PC's software or contents is now made up of hundreds of little contacts with the outside world. It becomes nuanced In my case, the whole family still uses the main PC sometimes, even though we all have late model laptops as well. We all use the PC for something different, the girls chat and swap photos, Dee emails quilting tidbits about, I surf, blog, read my emails and play Diablo, but we all do these things in different ways.

I will now bitch and moan internally about my feeling for this PC for the next few weeks, in the hope the it will 'come right' but deep down I know that unless I change something, nothing will change.

Cheers

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